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'Calling me on a day off? Cha-ching!': IT employee gets called on his day off, finagles a 10 minute call to be 6 hours of PTO with 150% Overtime

Are you a full-time employee? Then we have a quick question for you: Have you thoroughly read your employee handbook? Many employees simply skim their employee handbook and don't read the fine print. Most of the wordage is to cover the derrière of the company, but it clearly states exactly what you are supposed to be earning. That means you are supposed to get paid for a minimum of 4 hours no matter what? You better charge that 10-minute call as if it were 4 hours. That is exactly what this tec…
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‘Computer’s broke!'… ‘Tell it to get a job then’: 25+ Questions people have actually asked IT and IT's hilariously snarky responses

"Can I have read/write access to the internet?"... "Gonna have to clear this request with the Elders of the Internet first."
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'I had a good laugh at that one': IT workers share what it's like to work for the technologically-illiterate

'I had a good laugh at that one': IT workers share what it's like to work for the technologically-illiterate

As more and more millennials and Gen Z enter the workforce the staff is becoming more technologically literate. However, only to a point. We all know how to create a PDF, how to connect to the printer, which emails are spam, and things of that nature. But that does not mean we all know how to restart an entire server, or fix a Point of Sales (POS) system. That's why having an IT team for a company is still very important, if not more important than ever. So when you get the technologically-illi…
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